Garden Experience Guide

Summer Music and Night Illuminations at Butchart Gardens

From the Canada Day weekend through the Labour Day weekend the gardens are alive with evening musical performances on an outdoor stage and outstanding Saturday night Firework shows choreographed to music. Night Illuminations (mid-June to mid-September) light up the gardens each evening with a subtle play of light and shadow. The Rose Carousel and the electric boat tours of the local waters operate daily. Be sure to check TripAdvisor.

Summer’s here and Canada’s public gardens are at their best. You know you want to visit them yourself – who wouldn’t want to stroll through a beautiful park filled with flowers – but maybe you feel you’re so tied up with your children or grandchildren you just can’t get away. Well, there’s an easy solution to that: bring them along!